- Sen. Carl Kruger criticized Chancellor Klein for taking the legislature’s money, but not its advice.
- If Paterson’s cuts go through, the total budget gap for the DOE will be $1.2 billion.
- Arne Duncan apologizes for the Katrina comment.
- Diane Ravitch: the closing of neighborhood schools is the collateral damage of the DOE’s priorities.
- The DOE wants you to know the UFT filed a grievance over teachers having to write out students’ goals.
- Maura Keaney is “exactly the kind of woman we need at the Department of Ed,” Bloomberg says.
- A UFT blogger wonders why the city, state, and federal gov. all use different criteria to define failure.
- David Dashefsky: Seth Andrew and other charter operators shouldn’t just quit New York State.
- The DOE is hosting a new high school fair this weekend across the street from Tweed.
- Creative writing morphs into creative spelling in one class.
- The message from charter school parents to Albany today was: restore our funding.
- Jay Mathews isn’t betting Rhee will succeed if she remains unwilling to compromise.
- Kevin Carey says there are actually 3 movements within the school “reform” movement.
- And New Orleans may cancel school the day after the Super Bowl.